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cloud computinghas become the chosen model for modernizing IT portfolios, with companies gaining agility and speed in the market by using software in public clouds. However, more and more CIOs are building what are called hybrid cloud systems, in which they transfer business applications between public clouds from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and private clouds running internally, or even hosted by a provider.
The main trends that will shape the adoption of cloud services in 2020 are:
1. Hybrid cloud world
Most companies acquire cloud services from two or more providers, a trend that will continue to gain strength in 2020, as global spending on public cloud approaches $300 billion, according to Forrester Research. Companies often choose AWS for customer-facing applications, Azure for business services, and GCP for analytics - the provider that makes the most sense for a specific business scenario.
But companies also keep some applications close to private clouds or dynamically switch applications between public and private systems. For security or cost reasons, some organizations revert applications from public clouds to internal systems, a process known as repatriation. This was the case for 73% of the 2,650 IT decision-makers surveyed by Vanson Bourne for Nutanix.
2. Scale your cloud environment
Companies that rely too much on the public cloud lose money after the first 12 to 18 months due to over-provisioning of resources that they do not consume. For example, some application developers accidentally leave workloads in the cloud over the weekend, resulting in millions of dollars in penalties.
CIOs must develop a strategy that allows them to optimize operations in public and private clouds. One solution that CIOs are endorsing includes FinOps, a combination of business management practices and analytics software that calculates cloud consumption after migration.
3. Modernize applications
Many CIOs have endorsed the migration of applications to the cloud, but this practice is not enough to generate agility.
Leaders should leverage containers and microservices to make applications portable and decomposable. Cloud-native systems, including orchestration services from AWS, Azure, and GCP, which automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containers, enable rapid changes and continuous innovation.
A cloud-native approach also creates more challenges, including the ability to manage clusters of containers running in a multicloud environment. Instead, many CIOs are creating disruption measures, such as using VMware software to run virtual servers on AWS or Azure.
4. Reskilling for the cloud
CIOs who follow this path need to update more than just technology: using the cloud to drive innovation and create value also requires a transformation of people, processes, and culture. Cloud computing skills require new training in container orchestration and microservices, as well as DevOps.
At Capgemini, the company's employees have been trained in programming languages such as Java Spring, Python, and other modern languages. But languages are just one aspect: to deliver digital services to the market in a timely manner, organizations must shift to product-based delivery models.
It seems easy, but CIOs must rank employees by cloud value, overcoming resistance among those who do not want to make a leap in local infrastructure. Yes - even in 2020. This will help your company safeguard its future and attract the next generation of talent.
5. Serverless
Kubernetes has convincingly won the war for container orchestration, but hundreds of open-source projects and vendors will vie for developers' attention in 2020, predicts Forrester Research. Service meshes, which group microservices to reduce administrative and programming overhead, such as AWS App Mesh and Google Anthos, will be challenged by open-source leader Istio, Mesher, and Consul Connect.
Meanwhile, serverless services, such as AWS Lambda and Google kNative, which customers use to run applications without creating and maintaining the infrastructure for operation, will continue to offer developers new programming models.
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